Definitions for decompose

decompose de·com·pose

Spelling: [dee-kuh m-pohz]
IPA: /ˌdi kəmˈpoʊz/

Decompose is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 310 anagrams from letters in decompose (cdeemoops).

Definitions for decompose

verb (used with object)

  1. to separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements; disintegrate:

verb (used without object)

  1. to rot; putrefy:

Origin of decompose

1745-55; French décomposer, equivalent to dé- dis-1 + composer to compose

Examples for decompose

By this time the husks will have begun to decompose and darken the kernels.

Instead, as the body began to decompose, she spread baking soda on the floorboards to mask the smell.

The puzzle was, that a single cell could not decompose water.

Let it, for example, decompose water into oxygen and hydrogen.

They decompose into some psychic reality, and into some potential will.

He wants to take the fingers, let them decompose, then take the bones and make a finger bone necklace out of it.

The city will be a charnel house when these bodies start to decompose.

But if they do decompose, then it is not into any elements of Matter and physical energy.

When the snow melted it looked like blood, as the red particles do not decompose.

You cannot get anything out of iron but iron; you cannot decompose iron.

Word Value for decompose
Scrable

16

Words with friends

19

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